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== History==
[[Quickselect]] was presented without analysis by [[Tony Hoare]] {{nowrap|in 1965,{{r|hoare}}}} and first analyzed in a 1971 technical report by {{nowrap|[[Donald Knuth]].{{r|floriv}}}} The first known linear time deterministic selection algorithm is the [[median of medians]] method, published in 1973 by [[Manuel Blum]], [[Robert W. Floyd]], [[Vaughan Pratt]], [[Ron Rivest]], and [[Robert Tarjan]].{{r|bfprt}} They trace the formulation of the selection problem to work of [[Lewis Carroll]] in 1883, who pointed out that the usual design of single-elimination sports tournaments does not guarantee that the second-best player wins second place,{{r|bfprt|carroll}} and to work of [[Hugo Steinhaus]] circa 1930, who followed up this same line of thought by asking for a tournament design that can make this guarantee, with a minimum number of games played (that is, {{nowrap|comparisons).{{r|bfprt}}}}
== See also ==
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<ref name=carroll>{{cite book|title=The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)|editor1-first=Robin|editor1-last=Wilson|editor2-first=Amirouche|editor2-last=Moktefi|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=9780192549013|contribution=Lawn tennis tournaments|page=129|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBGIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA129}}</ref>
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